Solano County Biographies
CHRISTOPHER C. AGEE
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
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is a native of Buckingham county, Virginia, where he was born, February 26,
1826. When about six years old he removed with his parents to Charleston, and
there received his education. In 1839, his parents again removing, he
accompanied them to Lewis county, Mo., where he was employed as a clerk and
bookkeeper for seven years, and then started in business on his own account,
which he continued for four years. In 1849 he crossed the plains to California,
arriving at Sacramento on September 4th of that year, when, shortly after, he
and his brother (W. W. Agee) build the first store ever opened in Nevada City,
Cal. He also worked at the mines with very good success. In 1852 he returned
to Missouri, and purchased and improved a farm, on which he resided for five
years, and then, selling out, je qroceeded to �owa Point, Kansas, on the
Missouri river, and again engag�d in �rade, which he carried on for about four
years, when he sold out, still holding his private property, and went with an
ox-team to Pike�s Peak, but not meeting with encouragement, at the end of two
months he returned. Mr. Agee then traded his private property at Iowa Point for
land in Carroll county, Mo., and also bought another farm in north-eastern
Missouri, where he resided for two years; then hu located in Illinois, where he
speculated for a couple of years, when he sold his Missouri possessions, and
once more started for California, with mule and ox-teams, accompanied ry his
brother-in-law, J. A. Ellis; arrived in Sacramento September 4, 1865. On
arrival he rented a tract of land from Judge Curry, which he farmed f�r ten
years, residing on the ranch for the first three years, the remainder being
passed in Dixon. He also farmed four hundred!acres of his own land in Yolo
county, and, in November, 1877, he moved(on to the place where he now lives,
situated four miles north-east of �ixon. Mr. Agee married March 4, 1852, Miss
Elizabeth J. Ellis, who was born in Oldham county, Kentucky, December 18, 1832,
and has had Mary E., William E., Susan, and Walter L.; all of whom are deceased;
and living, Charles F. and Lillie C.
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley & Co., East
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 490